is thebestdefense. lysol.mission for health. >>> thanks for joining us this morning. a halloween pumpkin carving experiment goes terribly wrong and the whole thing on live tv jason lindsey is known as the hooked on science guy and he was trying to demonstrate how you can use a small explosion to carve a pumpkin. he precut the eyes, the nose and the mouth. he even filled the pumpkin with a chemical formula. here's what happened when he ignited the lighter. >> we're going to try this. are you ready? >> i'm ready. >> are you sure? >> i think so. >> okay. let's see here. we blew up the whole thing, pretty cool. >> was that a good idea to teach kids? so he apparently filled the pumpkin with too much gas and fortunately nobody was hurt, but things did not go the way he had planned. >>> kids and teens they use computers and tablets for practically everything these days, so much so that a cool is district is considering -- school district is considering a move that would ban the teaching of a certain style of handwriting. >> and how the national guard is now helping out those in need. >> and we

ofdefensecanceledthat. you notice that he's cancelling his trips over the hurricane. he didn't cancel his trips over benghazi and you have to wonder, between benghazi, the price of gasoline and unemployment just how much the burden the president is going to carry into this last week. >> he does have a burden. at the same time, he's built up a lead in some of these battle ground states. it raised the prospect of governor romney winning the popular vote . >> i don't know what he means by we won't accept it. we're a nation of law, we'll obey the law. i think romney will win 53% 47%. very unlikely that he can win popular vote and not carry the electoral vote. carville has a rule, incumbents get the last poll. ohio, obama would lose 51%, 49%. you go around the country. lots of states obama is at 48%, 49% and james carville always said, you never get if you're the incumbent, you never get a break. >> let's look at the closing arguments from president obama. he was in new hampshire yesterday taking aim at romney's record in massachusetts. >> once he took office, he pushed through a tax cut that

adequately. theeagles'defenseisterrible. may have firedtheirdefensivecoordinator.doesn't matter. this team need an overhaul. >> maybe hearing more about nick falls, replacing michael vick in the next week. >> falcons though. talk about the falcons. >> give them credit. >> give them credit. a great job. 7-0. not the best team in the nfc. may not be the second best in the nfc. >> would you say the bears would be one of the best in the nfc, despite barely beating a panthers team. they came back. awe showing some moxie and wear it proudly, faris. >> defense belter than any in the nfl now. they don't give up a lot of points. they create so many turn yoefz. more than just about any team in the league. the question is can jay cutler make good decisions. does he not have to be that gunslinger. if jay cutler could figure out a way to just keep it contained, not try to make the big play all the time. great receivers, guys brab don marshal. i think chicago could be the biggest threat to the new york giants out there right now. even bigger than atlanta. >> cutler, on the game winning drive.

'splayingdefenseinmichigan, pennsylvania and minnesota, democratic turf. rob and sunny? >> at this point, no one really knows. five days and counting. tahman bradley, live in washington. thanks, tahman. >>> and more than 1,000 people around louisville, kentucky, have spent the night out of their homes. they were forced to evacuate when fire erupted at the site of a train derailment. 11 cars went off the tracks monday, leaking a highly-flammable chemical. three cleanup workers were hurt in that incident. >>> and look at this. smugglers came up with an innovative way to sneak across the border. but it did not work as planned. instead of using an underground tunnel, they tried to cross over from mexico to arizona by driving across a makeshift ramp. as you can see, they abandoned that plan, leaving their jeep struck on the 14-foot-high border fence. >> that wasn't a good plan. >> no. better luck next time, fellas. >>> in san francisco, thousands of people came together to celebrate their world series champions, san francisco giants. the city's victory party coincided with halloween, allowing

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playingdefense. thepresident, back on the campaign trail today. going to wisconsin, colorado and nevada. mitt romney will be campaigning in virginia. george, you can expect both of them to be campaigning virtually nonstop between now and tuesday. >> no question about it. they're going to be focused on the white battleground states and the pink in north carolina, over the next several days. want to give you a sense of each side's strategy. what the obama campaign is trying to do is build a firewall in the big american states, iowa, wisconsin. he gets to 271 electoral votes. and if mitt romney wins all of the other battlegrounds right there, he'll come up a little bit short, which may explain, jon, one of the reasons the romney campaign is trying to put new efforts into minnesota and pennsylvania and michigan, where they have been behind so far. but if they're able to pick off any one of those three states, that's enough to put him over the top. and one of the things we're seeing, you talk about the travel in the last few days. these battleground states, jon, are also completely inundated